# John Virtue - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-29T01:19:52.214Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 54
- Lots with prices: 39
- First auction date: 2002-12-03
- Latest auction date: 2025-12-10
- Median realised price: $1,250
- Price range: $80 to $18,750

## Market Takeaway
John Virtue has 54 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $1,250. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 5 sales. These metrics reflect recorded public auction results and may not include private transactions or every premium outlier sale.

## How To Read This Data
- Use median \($1,250\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($900 to $4,200\) as the middle 50% of recorded sales.
- Auction prices can include buyer premiums or fees depending on house reporting, so compare on a like\-for\-like basis.
- Condition, provenance, size, and attribution confidence can move final value materially versus median comps.

## Price Bands
- Under $1,000: 30.8% (12 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 64.1% (25 sales)
- $10,000\+: 5.1% (2 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 5
- Previous 12 months sales: 4
- Recent 12 months median: $3,000
- Previous 12 months median: $1,049
- Median shift: 100%
- Latest sale date: 2025-12-10
- Days since latest sale: 139
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Bonhams: 20 lots
- Christie's: 13 lots
- Capes Dunn & Co.: 4 lots
- Sotheby's: 4 lots
- Roseberys: 3 lots
- Adam Partridge Auctioneers: 2 lots
- Hartleys Auctioneers and Valuers: 2 lots
- Adam's: 1 lots
- John Moran Auctioneers: 1 lots
- Rago Arts and Auction Center: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2012-09-18 | John Virtue, British b.1947\- "Landscape No. 44"; | Roseberys | £2,200
2. 2025-12-10 | John Virtue \(b. 1947\), "Landscape No. 596" \(triptych\), 1999 | John Moran Auctioneers | $6,985
3. 2025-10-23 | JOHN VIRTUE \(B. 1947\). Landscape No. 554. black ink, shellac and acrylic on | Christie's | N/A
4. 2025-09-13 | JOHN VIRTUE \(born 1947\); ink drawing, farm buildings in landscape, signed, 36 x 47cm, framed and glazed. | Adam Partridge Auctioneers | £400
5. 2025-09-13 | JOHN VIRTUE \(born 1947\); ink drawing of farm buildings in landscape, signed, 47 x 72cm, framed and glazed. | Adam Partridge Auctioneers | N/A
6. 2025-07-16 | John Virtue \(British, born 1947\) Landscape No. 104 | Bonhams | £3,000
7. 2024-11-27 | John Virtue \(British, born 1947\) Landscape No. 756 \(unframed\)together with a further acrylic, black ink and shellac on canvas painting, Landscape No. 691, by the same hand\(2\) | Bonhams | £1,100
8. 2024-11-27 | John Virtue \(British, born 1947\) Landscape No. 414 | Bonhams | £800
9. 2024-11-27 | JOHN VIRTUE \(né en 1947\) | Tajan | €1,049
10. 2024-10-17 | JOHN VIRTUE \(B. 1947\). Landscape No. 706. acrylic, black ink and shellac on | Christie's | £5,292
11. 2022-03-23 | JOHN VIRTUE \(B. 1947\) Landscape No 567 black ink, shellac and acrylic on c | Christie's | £6,500
12. 2021-11-23 | John Virtue \(British, born 1947\) Diptych: Landscape 718 and 719 183 x 152cm \(72 1/16 x 59 13/16in\) each; 183 x 304cm \(72 1/16 x 119 11/16in\) overall \(unframed\) | Bonhams | N/A
13. 2021-07-21 | John Virtue \(British, born 1947\) Landscape 853 \(unframed\) | Bonhams | £6,500
14. 2021-07-21 | John Virtue \(British, born 1947\) Landscape 849 \(unframed\) | Bonhams | £10,000
15. 2020-09-16 | John Virtue \(British, born 1947\) Street Scene \(with a further unfinished study in pen and ink, to the reverse of the sheet, by the same hand\) | Bonhams | £800
16. 2020-09-16 | John Virtue \(British, born 1947\) 126 Studies of the Fever Hospital at Night 108 x 114.5cm \(42 1/2 x 45 1/16in\) overall \(Executed in 1980\-81\) | Bonhams | £2,000
17. 2020-07-16 | John Virtue \(b. 1947\): Landscape No. 27 | STAIR | $3,500
18. 2020-05-12 | Lot withdrawn: please contact Bonhams for more information about this lot | Bonhams | N/A
19. 2020-05-12 | Lot withdrawn: please contact Bonhams for more information about this lot | Bonhams | N/A
20. 2019-11-27 | John Virtue \(British, born 1947\) Green Haworth, near Accrington, Lancashire | Bonhams | £2,200
21. 2018-09-26 | John Virtue, British b.1947\-Landscape No. 256, 1992\-93; ink, gouache and ac | Roseberys | £2,800
22. 2018-08-27 | John Virtue \(British, b. 1947\) | Shapiro Auctioneers | N/A
23. 2018-03-20 | JOHN VIRTUE \| Landscape 206 | Sotheby's | £4,500
24. 2018-03-20 | JOHN VIRTUE \| Landscape 199 | Sotheby's | £4,800

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